[2.4] Occultist Summoner - You will never want to play Necro again!

Damage is certainly not a problem, since I have cleared t16 maps. Shaper is the only boss in the game I'm worried I might not have the damage for, but I don't even have a 6 link so I'm a long way away from trying him. And, since temp chains does nothing to him, I can replace it with a 20/20 elemental weakness and get a lot more damage that way.

Duration is okay but it's just duration, not damage. Flasks are nice but still not damage...I'm still of the opinion that as long as there is extra damage to be gained from the tree you might as well grab it. Jewels might be better if you have good ones but it's a lot easier to take the guaranteed bonus rather than the one you have to shop for. I'll have to think about that, though.

but but .. your first para says you have enough damage

and your second says you want more damage

O.O

Having enough never means you don't want more. Enough = can kill bosses, more = bosses die faster. Except for shaper I absolutely don't NEED any more damage in my build. But, if it's there, why not grab it? I don't really see the benefit of an extra half a second on flesh offering or a bit of flask effectiveness on a build where flasks don't do a whole lot other than grant immunities and some regen.

Flasks can be damage if you consider using this:


Shaper can't be shocked so thats a bummer since vinktar shock50% is super strong on minions, I think I melted any other boss that can be shocked.

- I been running the poison gem swap + Atziri promise combo and it's been doing an ass load of damage. - - Chalice double dips on degen and initial and gives me 100% flask charge gains, also placing 4% regen everywhere is incredible defense for high hp minions
- Same goes for Stibnite covering the entire arena with clouds is very strong vs attack bosses
- Dying sun is pretty fun watching giant AOE spectres
- Blood of the Karui keeps your minions alive
- Witch Firebrew for huge degen damage boost and free curse.
- Rumi's + bone offering combo
- Lion's Roar is also a great utility flask it pushes bosses to a corner and they can no longer move while its up

Only time I unequipped this belt was during Atziri fights. The spear bleed needs an anti-bleed flask to counter. Only thing I miss is having armor from granite but besides that CI is very flask flexible and they don't really need them.

Yeah if i went down the ci path i would have rocked a umbilicus since all it essentially is to a ci build is a belt without es so it does not hurt the pool much at all.


i even have a zombie chest lined up for it just in case.

The 2% regen stat is half decent. Only thing that is wasted is the 8-12% hp roll. The flat hp I just corrupt away. I guess skill duration will be the best corruption.

Umbilicus Immortalis is suicide, in my opinion. The biggest issue that you have with wicked ward/soul strike is damage over time effects. Bleeds, poisons (not if you're CI of course), burning. These effects prevent your ES regeneration from beginning and they can last for several seconds, completely negating the whole point of soul strike entirely. For this reason it's absolutely imperative you have anti-burning, anti-bleeding, and anti-poison (if you aren't CI) to cleanse these DoTs off yourself at all times. Unless I am mistaken, Immortalis prevents you from doing this, and therefore makes you extremely vulnerable to these effects.

I have considered the belt myself, and I think it would be AWESOME for a variety of reasons, especially vinktar's, but I think you sacrifice too much in terms of personal survivability for it.

It takes time getting used to but for most content everything dies too quickly for them to apply any kind of dot. Burning has never been an issue for me. I been using these spectre called Merveil Blessed lately they shoot frostbolt and seawitchwave attacks everything is frozen except for tanky bosses. Only time I couldn't utilize it was during atziri. The spear bleed on top of trying to dodge everything else was too much.

I mean I am a softcore player, id prob never use this in HC and my playstyle is very aggressive so I could take a defensive hit in exchange for double or even tripling my damage. My thoughts are if they are dead that's the best damage mitigation lol.

Yeah part of my design goal is to have a build that is fast (enough), can do all content in the game, or at least almost all, and is tanky enough that it can survive the occasional FPS drop, disconnect, or just general screw up. It is VERY hard to die with this build, unless you do something exceptionally stupid like tank a full barrage of Orra with extra crit and GMP. It is tough, however, to do stuff like uber Izaro with fire essence without anti-burning because you are basically always on fire unless you are exceptionally good at dodging. Though, I admit, with a 6 link and Vinktar I could probably kill uber Izaro in a couple of seconds tops. I wouldn't mind playing a build with insane DPS as a form of defense, but that usually also costs a lot of currency, and this was my first build of the league so it had to be doable poor.

What order ascendancy would you go? Thanks for the build just started playing it after my last summoner died